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Vaders_fist

Yes. I left the only guild I have ever been in, ever wanted to be in. 18 months of battling with them and I hit the leave guild button.

Whaaaaaaaat?!!!??

I can hear the sound echoing around the world.

Seriously, my friends, I hit the leave guild button and joined another guild.

My leader, my friend, my brother, Disneyfreak, wanted a break from battling. Hey, the guy has a wife and 6 kids. Yes, 6! I have seen pictures of them. Cute wife, cute kids.

I could not let him sail off into the weeds by himself. I joined him in the new guild, Vaders_fist. Someone has to keep the guy in check. He is a wild man when left to himself. Haha! (No, he isn't. But I love him like a brother, a younger brother, and you all know what that means. I get to tease him, and treat him like a pest, just like any loving older sister would.)

I will now be posting my stories, pictures, recruitment entreaties, etc. on this thread. I hope if my posts on my old thread amused you, that you will follow me here as well.

I hope any of you who commented on my old thread will feel comfortable posting here as well. I have made some wonderful friends in the game, on the forum and in the tavern. Friends that I want to stay in touch with. AND there are opportunities to make new friends as well.

Vaders_Fist. Keep us in mind if you are looking for a guild to join. Or if you know anyone who is looking.

Watch this thread for new stories, pictures and the same kind of zaniness and weirdness I always seem to find!

Okay, I took care of some business. I changed my signature to reflect my new status in my new guild. And put in a quote from one of my all-time favorite actresses. Bette Davis was an original, a terrific actress, and a woman who was not afraid to speak her mind. They don't make them like her any more. She could cut a person down with a few well-chosen words. Some of her quotes about Joan Crawford are legendary put-downs.

I want to say that my above post reflected the angst I was feeling as I left my former guild. But I want to make it clear that I was in no way knocking them, putting them down or saying a disparaging word abut them. I love my 501st family. It was hard to leave them and go to the sister guild, but I really think it will be a good thing.

Now, having said that, I have to tell you that I want you to join Vaders_Fist. If you don't join and fill our guild up, I will just keep posting on here. And posting. And posting.

Is it just the two of you in the guild? If so, you're both welcome to come and join us at Coveville. We do take part in the battles but there's no pressure and we chat plenty and are mainly there to have fun.

I'm sure you'll have no problem filling your guild up but the offer is there is you do fancy joining us.

If someone is going to join me in Vaders_Fist, I think you should know a bit about me. If you have already read my previous recruiting thread, you know a bit already. But there is so much more! Trust me, there is more!

With the event changing from Individual to Guild Battle, and the lock-out already in place, you can't join me this weekend. But there is always next time!

I am talkative, interested in books, love to learn by exploring on the Internet and by trying new things in RL, and open to having new friends join me in Vaders_Fist!

Red Clover. This is growing in the ditch in front of our shop. The state of Arkansas plants it along roadsides when they do any work on the roads. It is great for stabilizing fresh dirt, and very pretty to boot.

A scruffy tree? I can hear you asking that question. Well, yes, I do love trees. But what I really love is the color of new leaves against a cloudless blue sky. That green against blue gets me every time!

I am almost 200 points over my best personal score ever! With two battles left to fight. New iPad has proved that silver is as good as gold! And with personal Wi-Fi hot spot, I can fight while hubby drives when we do errands. Yes, I fought two battles Saturday while we were out running errands. No arguing with hubby - Me - "wait a minute! Just let me sink one more ship!"
Hubby - "the bus is leaving now!" Accompanied by stink eye! Or he is sitting in the car honking the horn and fuming!

Guild update - with 6 members and having decided not to push ourselves, we are in 37th place on our board. I know, we are so far behind first place we can't even see their wake. But I think we are doing good for a brand-new guild. With a few more members, who knows how far we could go.

Match #22, just concluded an hour ago. We fought Geezers. I kept saying, "don't make me fight our Around the World quest-giver's namesake, don't make me fight our quest-giver's namesake." It did not work. I had to fight her twice. Sorry. I did not want to do it, but I had to. And in a shout-out to Geezers, they beat us.

I should not praise other guilds in my recruiting thread, but there it is. I appreciate the efforts everyone puts into fighting for their guild.

Having said that, if you are thinking of making a change, joining your first guild, tired of fighting every weekend and thinking of taking a break, JOIN Vaders_Fist! I slept through a few matches and did not feel guilty! I am having a ball. Seriously, I would love to have some company in my new guild. You can relax, take it easy if that is what you are looking for. You can go (cannon)balls to the walls if you want to. You can outscore me and be the MVP if that is your aim. We are open for business. Funny business, monkey business, pirate business.

The final battle was very aggravating. Every time a ship came up to fight it seemed to be Snake! ARRRRGHHHHHH!

In real life, I am pretty easy going about snakes. I don't bother them as long as they don't bother me. But for three hours today, I kept shouting, "Not Snake again!" And I kept smashing his ships, and he just kept coming back again and again and again.

Actually, I had to laugh when I saw the name - Snake Plissken was the main character in Escape From New York. And having someone use the name in TPC is kind of cool. It is a good name for a pirate.

Snake notwithstanding, I scored a personal best this event. And I am darn proud of myself. 1,560 points may not be much to some of the heavy hitters in the game, but it is a lot for me.

A few pictures of horses at play. Yes, horses love to play. They will run and jump when loose in a field, and look much like children at play. And they also stomp on alligators occasionally.

The last picture is from Florida. Several horses were grazing in a park and the gator walked part way across the berm when one of the horses decided to go after it. No horses or gators were actually hurt in the attack. You've just gotta' love the horse's spirit though. It went after the gator and stomped on it a few times.

Why did I post this? Because I love horses. To keep my recruiting thread active. And because I can!

Okay, sad face emoji is gone. Yesterday was a bit depressing and it suited my mood. But today I am back to my sort-of-cheerful self. New day, new picture. The daisy actually has a little black and yellow bug on it. Since I posted about Giant Beetles taking over the cove on the Player Ideas for Ships thread, I thought it was cool that when I snapped the daisy picture a little bug was on it.

Daisies are truly special. They grow along waysides, highways, in fields and just about everywhere in Arkansas. They also grew in my home town in Connecticut. Here they are considered pesky weeds. I say a weed is just a plant we have forgotten how to use. When I was a child I loved to pick them and put them in jars of water with a few drops of food color in the water and dye them. Daisies and Queen Anne's Lace. And I made daisy chains and daisy crowns and necklaces and bracelets. Oh, to be a kid again and have those long carefree days of summer back again!

Join me and we can reminisce about our childhoods. Or not. I am open to talking to people from all over the world, at any time of the day or night. With my insomnia I am often up in the middle of the night. I am just a chat away!

I am watching the new Dr. Who episode. I have been watching Dr. Who for years. Decades, actually. I have not seen all of it, but have seen episodes from all of the Doctors. I wasn't sure I would like Peter Capaldi as the Doctor but I must admit he has grown on me.

Sparkly ships! Just what I like. And no mermaid ship. I rarely get them and am relieved not to see it in the list.

We also need some serious ships. Serious kick-butt pirate-pleasing ships. Someone ought to come up with a story about that type of ship. Fierce ships, to please the meanest pirate sailing the seas and make the crews on the sparkly ships quake in their sparkly outfits. Pirate ships that Jack Sparrow and Blackbeard and pirates such as actually roamed the oceans once upon a time might have sailed! Pirate ships a captain could sail proudly into battle, knowing he or she was the baddest of the bad!

No kids would dare come aboard the ships I speak of. No honeymooning couples. No retirees' cruise ships be these ships! Fierce ships, with captains called Snake or Sharkey or Mean Jim or Treacherous Tom or such.

Ships whose captain would make any sailor who mentioned the words sparkles or cake or purple walk the plank in shark-infested waters!

Okay, I know what you are all thinking.

SC has flipped her lid, gone bonkers, sailed round the bend into insanity, gone rouge, lost her marbles! Yep! You would be right.

Join me in my insane little corner of the world? There is always room for one more! Or in this case, several more!